Bridget Moynahan committed the crime of “flaunting her baby belly despite being a single mom and therefore setting a bad example”. Of course Tom Brady’s rudeness to very publicly kiss and flaunt his supermodel squeeze despite his dumped pregnant ex has not even been mentioned by Ms/Mrs Eagan. What about showing a little bit of respect towards your dumped pregnant ex and what about NOT starting rumours about “bad bad Bridget wanting to trap Tom Brady”???? **********************

I don’t like Eagan’s attitude. Sure having a baby to be cool is not cool. But whose fault is it when teenagers want babies to be cool? I would suggest Mrs Eagan takes a look at Sex Education at high schools and at the recent president’s ideas about premarital sex, conception and Sex Ed.
Or: if you don’t tell teenagers on a biological and legal and social and pedagogic level what it means to have a baby / to have sex / to have a relationship then these teenagers will screw it. Is that so hard to understand? That you need to know what you are doing in order not to screw it up? ****************** Why don’t we teach each male and each female teenager that having a relationship and having sex and having a baby needs consideration and respect and responsibility. Tell each man who acts like a horny bull that sex is nice for sure but that the result of a passionate encounter may be a pregnancy and that the legal responsibility of a pregnancy means 25 years of monthly child support. So it is one moment of passion vs. 300 paychecks. And do tell the girls that babies aren’t cute lovely little moving dolls with sound effects but helpless human beings growing more independent who need at least some 300 month of attention and help. Tell boys and girls that having a baby would mean that their “fun teenager time” and their relatively “free” young adulthood is finally over.

********************************* Now back to Ms/Mrs Eagan. So according to her Bridget Moynahan and Melanie Brown make bad role models although both Moynahan and Brown both are perfectly capable of caring and providing for their babies? Don’t you see the flaw in that kind of logic? Caring and responsible mothers are turned into “bad role models” because they are not married. So these two celeb mothers are “bad role models for motherhood” despite being good mothers!!! Now tell me whose reasoning is unreasonable.
But Eagan takes it even two steps further. 1. Moynahan and Brown set bad examples for being single moms because they are not married. And this “unmarried motherhood” is supposed to make teenagers think that being pregnant is cool. Both Moynahan and Brown have been dumped by the baby-daddies and both have received some media-bashing. But nevertheless teenagers will think that being a single parent helps you getting attention. Why do teenagers not draw the correct conclusion which is that a single mom will be bashed whereas a baby daddy who does not take responsibility will be pardonned and supported in bashing his pregnant dumped ex-girlfriend. Are teenagers that dumb that they don’t see what is going on? And I think that teenagers who are so starved of attention would do many things to get attention: bulimia, anorexia, cutting, taking drugs, violence…. Teenagers try to find their place in their society. They learn to become adults. Wheather Moynahan or Brown are single moms or not would matter in all the teenagers’ struggles to cope with the adult world.
2. And here is Eagan’s second misleading conclusion: Moynahan and Brown are “bad role models” because they have become pregnant while being unmarried. – Not so true. At the time being both Moynahan and Brown were having relationships. Pre-marital relationships nowadays are some kind of “marriage on probation”. People in relationships try to find out wheather this could be a long-term partner. In other words: Moynahan and Brown are NO SLUTS. Both were in a “marriage on probation” which resulted in a pregnancy. Now they are bashed for being “bad role models” because they have been dumped by their “partners-on-probation” who reject any responsibility for the babies they fathered. They just pay because they know they have to. We all know the baby grows in the woman’s belly and not in the man’s belly. Which is why some men say that they did not want the baby and that they don’t want anything to do with the baby they fathered. These men get away with that. These men get away with having fun and not taking responsibility. These men do not get bashed for acting irresponsible. They have had sex and deny the resulting responsibilitiey. I wish I could do that in my next car accident. “No I did not want it. No I do not want anything to do with it.” While I won’t get away with this neither legally nor in public’s view both Moynahan’s and Brown’s baby daddies get away in public’s view with their pubertal behaviour. And those people who can’t escape the pregnancy aspect so easily because the baby grows in their belly, they get media-bashed. Single moms get bashed. Single dads receive help bashing their pregnant dumped ex-girlfriend.
I guess it is neither Bridget Moynahan’s movies nor Melanie Brown’s skills that ensure a large circulation of the Boston Herald and therefore the salary of Ms/Mrs Eagan but the Patriots and Eddy Murphy and Hollywood do.

Laura

no baby again!
My lord those shoes are awful. She is still wearing maternity clothes, but she actually looks better with a bit of weight on her.

Denise

Bridget Moynahan did a deliberate deception, attempting to entrap Tom Brady into marrying her. They had an agreement she would be on birth control pills. As the relationship began to get rocky, Bridget feared Tom was going to move on. She became pregnant in early November, 2006, the very same month Tom broke it off. Moynahan then exhibited all the behavior that befalls an initial backfired plan. She followed Brady to Miami last December for the Pats/Dolphins game, ostensibly to host the Baume Mericer party at the Raleigh. Tom was not amused; still unaware she was pregnant and rebuffed her. When Bridget finally informed Tom she was pregnant (the last month they were together in a 3 yr. relationship), he immediately recognized he had been tricked and left enraged.
Bridget’s later behavior varies from still attempted entrapment to revenge mode. Tom has begun dating Gisele Bundchen in late December. In the off-season, Brady and Bundchen are in Paris. Bridget then text messages Tom, giving him mere minutes to respond, since Moynahan is informing him she is announcing her pregnancy on the Pg. 6, NY Post Gossip Section run by Liz Smith, naming him as the father. Tom stays collected, offers nothing inflamatory. Bridget then sells her apartment in NYC, July, and moves to LA on the West Coast. When Bridget gives birth in CA, Tom arrives with his parents. Bridget then tells Tom off, stating she wants him out of her AND the baby’s life. Gives the baby her last name. Tom is only allowed to hold his son for a few minutes. Moynahan then announces she will not be working in the foreseeable future, making it all the more apparent the move was only to deny the father the right to see his son (football season denies that except for 1 bye week). Bridget later poses on the cover of OK magazine with the son.
Tom has initated contact with Bridget, sent additional flowers in hopes of seeing his son. Recently, he saw John for approximately 8 hours, via a court mediator. Done on Patriots bye week. Has stated to media only that there will be a lot more visitations in the off-season.
Bridget Moynahan is not a role model in a country that is swimming with unwanted teenage pregnancies. Her deliberate deception on Brady TO get pregnant, hoping to entrap him in marriage holds a poor example for all women. John, the son, in a few years will be in school. He will hear from classmates how he is Tom Brady’s son. See his father’s records, Super Bowl wins etc. Then the computers will reveal the Mother’s behavior to the son, which is not helpful to any child.
Children are supposed to be a planned, blessed event by two adults, not one scheming to hold on to a failing relationship. The later damage to the son will only cause more heartache and possible move by the son to live with the father.
Eagan had the proper conclusion about Bridget and could have added a whole lot more.

selena

Oh these old accusations of Bridget tricking and trapping good ol’ Tom.

Well, wear a head then.

Oh these old accusations of Bridget preventing Tom from seeing his child. Well, some of Tom’s statements and the rumours he started might have something to do with that. As well as Gisele’s suggestions about virginity and abortion and “the right way of not being a slut by becoming pregnant out of wedlock” and Tom and Gisele’s very publicly flaunted relationship might have something to do with the whole mess. Bridget did not say one bad word about not-supportive fathers or about bad-mouthed new squeezes of her ex-boyfriend. But nevertheless media blames her.

As well as many news articles that heap shame on Bridget but never blame Tom for all the trash-talking and the irresponsible behaviour he displayed.

The father is praised despite publicly saying he did not want the child and despite evidence that he pushed the mother for an abortion.
The single mother is blamed and shamed for not aborting the child-out-of-wedlock.

Tom has been in CA for the birth of his son for exactly ONE day in august.
And Tom has seen his son for the second time in November.
What a great man Tom Brady is. Has all the fun he can have but rejects any kind of responsibility.

selena

Bridget’s later behavior varies from still attempted entrapment to revenge mode. Tom has begun dating Gisele Bundchen in late December. In the off-season, Brady and Bundchen are in Paris.
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1. Imagine what a media hunt would have taken place had Tom Brady been in the US when the pregnancy was announced. He was lucky that he was in Paris till everything calmed down.

2. Being dumped is hard.
Beind dumped and seeing your ex-boyfriend publicly flaunting his new squeeze is even harder. (Remember how hidden Brady’s and Bridget’s relationship started?)
Being dumped and pregnant and seeing your ex-boyfriend publicly flaunting his new bad-mouthed squeeze is worst.

3. Entrapment? Revenge? Bridget?
If Bridget wanted to entrap Brady why did she move to CA? No one seriously expects Brady to quit in Boston and to move to CA.
If Bridget wanted to get revenge why did she not unleash a media beating on Brady’s head for being an irresponsible father? He is an irresponsible unsupportive and hitting-below-the-beltline father. It would be easy to demonstrate this.
Bridget so far has not said one bad word about her ex. Classy.
All Brady has done since Bridget’s pregnancy announcement has made him look like the jerk he is. Bridget did not do anything to make him look like a jerk. He did that all by himself.

4. Bridget becoming pregnant on purpose is just a rumour. Nobody was present. Nobody knows. Chance can gain grounds any time. That’s why it is called “chance”.

5. Do the math: Baby born 22th august after 9 month pregnancy. Earliest possible conception date: 22th november. Experience tells that babies tend to be born rather a few weeks earlier than later. So if 22th august was an “early birthdate” it follows that the baby could have been conceived later than 22th november. Means that Brady and Bridget were still an item around beginning of december.
Brady started dating Gisele beginning of december.

Rachel

Selena has more than a few facts mixed up. The baby was conceived around November 8th. It was 2 weeks overdue when finally taken by C-Section. Tom Brady was NOT dating Gisele Bundchen at the beginning of December but in LATE December.

This was a THREE year relationship and an agreement existed on Bridget taking birth control pills. The relationship had been going sour for approximately one year, with Bridget deeply in love and wishing it to go into marriage. How quaint she got pregnant the last month she and Tom were together. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what she did.

Bridget’s actions were less than admirable, filled with both angst and revenge during the pregnancy. Her announcement was carried in Liz Smith’s gossip column on Page 6, NY Post. Wonderful venue. Her text messaging Tom giving him a couple minutes to respond was not what one calls thoughtful.

Bridget then moves in July to Ca, knowing in advance she is NOT going to work for the foreseeable future. Obviously to deprive the father of normal visitation. At birth she verbally lambasts Brady, telling him that he IS NOT going to be a part of HER SON’S life. Obviously, Bridget knows little of law. Tom leaves.

Tom’s visitation w/his son. Tom had to use a court mediator to see his son w/his parents for 8 hours. Other visits were initially BLOCKED by Moynahan, who treats THEIR son as HER personal property. That, assuredly, is going to change in the shortly due off-season. Tom stated there will be a LOT of visitations in the future. Bridget won’t like it, but that’s how the law works.

NO WHERE in any blog, media is there a statement made by Tom that he urged Bridget to get an abortion. He was furious when she finally told him she was pregnant ONLY because he realized she had deliberately deceived him. She wanted marriage and PER HER OWN CIRCLE was devastated the plan backfired and he wouldn’t forgive what she had done.

Tom’s behavior has been the ONLY CLASS act in this sordid scenario. He has NOT responded to Moynahan’s telling him off, saying she was keeping John to herself. Ditto for slam on name change. Likewise for her refusal to allow other visitations. The ONLY KISS recorded was a pap hiding OUTSIDE a Paris eatery shooting inside. There was a near kiss on a Miami beach. TOTAL for A YEAR. Moynahan is about to see selfish behavior dissipate in early February courtesy of Tom Brady, his attorneys and Family Dispute Court. How she explains her behavior from conception to subsequent spite to a son in a few years reading all of this on the internet is a task I surely wouldn’t wish for myself.

Robin

Selena not only stretches the truth but embellishes it to suit a prejudicial agenda. 25 years of child support??? Hardly. In celeb cases it’s 18 years (most others 18 only) and then if the father is wealthy, he pays for college.

Selena would have us believe that poor Bridget was the victim in this situation. Scrutiny proves otherwise. As Rachel stated accurately, it’s not a case of Tom ignoring his son but Mom’s ill-advised denial of visitation that is about to be rectified very shortly after the NFL season ends. Bridget won’t like that because she’s still deeply in love w/Tom and furious he didn’t fall for the entrapment she sprung. One doesn’t have to wonder if a lie detector test were mandatory that Bridget would REFUSE to take it on any question involving deliberately not taking her birth control pills, per a 3 year agreement, TRYING to get pregnant to force a marriage. Of course, per Selena, Bridget is still blameless and Tom is the culprit.

Bridget Moynahan has:
1) deliberately deceived her bf, Tom Brady, by breaking a 3 year old birth control agreement because she feared he was going to break up with her
2) She followed Tom relentlessly, including to Miami, continually trying to revive the relationship
3) She posted her pregnancy announcement in the Liz Smith Gossip Rag, Page 6 NY Post
4) Enraged at not having Tom return to her, irregardless of her deceit, she moves to California, making it deliberately impossible for him to see his son during the majority of the year
5) She knows he’s flying in for the birth and gives no warning of her plan of action. Upon his arrival she tells him off and states it is HER SON and HE IS OUT OF HER AND THE SON’S life.
6) She names the son after her, via last name, in a moment of spite

Moynahan is a prime example of deceit gone awry resulting in childish babyish behavior on her part. Her actions are exactly the OPPOSITE of what women have fought to achieve.

In the off-season, Bridget will not be happy. Tom, being savvy to her ways, will undoubtedly always have is parents or a requested (on his part) nanny with him for the first several visitations. Bridget will, in my honest opinion, DO ANYTHING to stop Tom seeing his son. The woman is evil, not just scorned. A bitterness lasts only so long. After all these months, Bridget has shown EXACTLY HER TRUE NATURE. Thank God Tom stood is ground and didn’t marry her. He’d have a shrew for a wife, life-partner.

Cindy

Geez, one need only read the ravings of Tommy’s rabid “fans”, to realize Bridget made the best decision for her and her child’s safety, by moving to LA. These People are not only scary-crazy sounding, but also morons. I swear, if I hear one more of them STILL harping on how exactly the pregnancy came about, and whose “fault” it was, I’m going to scream. The baby is almost 4 months old now…give it a REST!!!! Who cares? The only thing that matters now is the health and welfare of baby John. And all these bloggers with supposed “insider” info…please! Get a LIFE people, Tom Brady wouldn’t spit on any one of you if you were on fire. LOL.

Bridget looks sensational, BTW. She obviously has a loving and supportive family and that will be a good thing for John, as she will no doubt raise him in a like manner. Such a lucky little boy, he is!

selena

Talk as much as you want.
Blame and shame Bridget as much as you want.

Jeeeeezuz, nobody was present in the bedroom nor does anyone know about their relationship. I judge Brady and Bridget on what I have seen prove of. And those Bridget-bashing rumours and comments (Gisele!) were published in many newspapers.

So Bridget tried to trap Brady?
One could as well reason that Brady kept Bridget out of convenience and by promising her: no baby yet but maybe later…. and kept her like this for three years although he always knew he would not ever want to have a baby with her.
That is a very mean kind of deception as well because women are not able to have children all their life. The clock is ticking. Everyone knows that. So it is very mean to keep a girlfriend to keep you satisfied when you at the same time know that you have already decided that you will never have a family with her although that is what she hopes for.

Who can tell it wasn’t like this?

If men would tell their girlfriends after one year of relationship frankly and openly: “I will never have a family with you,” they would have much less sex. And that does not seem preferable for men. But that would be honest and upright. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to have children now/yet/ever but there is something seriously mean and evil about purposeful lies.
(Maybe Gisele should read this part several times.)

But people see and read what Brady does, the mud-slinging, the flaunting of his new squeeze, the deadbeat-dad-attitude and the creepy PR-moves as well as all the media helping Brady to sling mud at Bridget.
That is why he is judged a jerk.
Any baby deserves two caring parents. Sling mud at the then pregnant mother does not help at all. Only a coward attacks somebody who is weaker. Only the worst kind of coward attacks a pregnant woman. That’s it.

Matter of fact is that the baby is there.
So do you Bridget-bashing guys believe that a parent should take responsibility for his/her child or not? I bet the circumstances of the conception of a child pretty much don’t matter to the child when the child misses a parent.

Don’t blame a child for the mistakes one or both of their parents made.

As for adults: mistakes happen. Problems turn up. Fate is a b*tch
But nobody is judget upon a bad fate but how he/she deals with it.
Maybe somebody should tell that Mr Brady.

Good news is that the original article by Mrs Eagan has been re-edited and is now published anonymously and does not blame any female celebrity to “glamorize single motherhood”.
Nice to see that.

Connie

In approximately 2 months the NFL season will close. Tom Brady & his parents (John’s OTHER grandparents who live in CA that Bridget ALSO won’t allow see their grandson) will then, via the law, have repeated visitations. Tom’s son is only a few months old, will be closer to 6 months old as Tom bonds with him. The following year may see shared custody, which is up to Tom, his lawyers, if they decide to seek.

Bridget has been bashed from subtle to open in the media from coast to coast. She initially brought it on herself in emotional angst. The early Nov pregnancy at the end of a 3 year relationship she desperately didn’t want to end is hardly considered an accident by men or women. Documented continual statements by her to her friends that if Gisele had stayed out of the picture Tom would have returned is in the domain. The announcement of the pregnancy naming Tom as the father in a NY Post Gossip column in lieu of far more appropriate venues was merely another attempt to entrap. Bridget texted Tom in Paris giving him mere minutes to respond to the Post inquiries. Moving to CA late term knowing she wouldn’t work for months. Telling off Tom at the hospital, instructing nurses to only let him hold his son for minutes. Naming John with her last name. Just continued anger, resentment from her after birth.

Tom has not said an unkind word about Bridget. He wouldn’t embellish to the Post. He steadfastly refuses to divulge anything about he & Bridget to endless media questions, only stating he was not aware she was pregnant when they split. It has been via his patience that they finally converse via phone.

I don’t hate Bridget. As a woman, I recognize she loved this man, probably still does. Her plight has attracted hanger-on’s who love arguing, fighting in some thinly veined venue of women’s rights to just enjoying trouble. It will always be that way.

Tom, Bridget will clearly continue conversing. The press will always attempt to learn, but these parents won’t divulge. As time goes by, John will obviously bond with both parents. Anger, disappointments will dissipate. A child is not personal property and I know Bridget realizes that. She and Tom have shown a mutual quiet for several months now. That is a welcome respite.